City Agendas – City of Bayou Vista

NOTICE OF 2019 TAX YEAR PROPOSED PROPERTY TAX RATE FOR CITY OF BAYOU VISTA A tax rate of $0.400000 per $100 valuation has been proposed for adoption by the governing body of City of Bayou Vista. This rate exceeds the lower of the effective or rollback tax rate, and state law requires that two public hearings be held by the governing body before adopting the proposed tax rate. The governing body of City of Bayou Vista proposes to use revenue attributable to the tax rate increase for the purpose of providing essential City services. PROPOSED TAX RATE $0.400000 per $100 PRECEDING YEAR'S TAX RATE $0.385000 per $100 EFFECTIVE TAX RATE $0.361647 per $100 ROLLBACK TAX RATE $0.447632 per $100 The effective tax rate is the total tax rate needed to raise the same amount of property tax revenue for City of Bayou Vista from the same properties in both the 2018 tax year and the 2019 tax year. The rollback tax rate is the highest tax rate that City of Bayou Vista may adopt before voters are entitled to petition for an election to limit the rate that may be approved to the rollback rate. YOUR TAXES OWED UNDER ANY OF THE ABOVE RATES CAN BE CALCULATED AS FOLLOWS: property tax amount= (rate) x (taxable value of your property)/100

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